State Records of South Australia - Contact Details

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Please contact the State Records Research Centre:

Postal Address: GPO Box 464, Adelaide SA 5001

Phone: 08 7322 7077

Website: https://www.archives.sa.gov.au/contact-us

Related Organisations

State Records of South Australia (1919 - current)

Related Archival Series

Register of New Committals (1931 - 1968)
Index to admissions - Boys Reformatory, McNally Training Centre, Magill (1877 - 1975)
Admission registers - Estcourt House (1941 - 1978)
Observation Log - Seaforth Home (1968 - 1973)
Case cards, alphabetical by surname - Women Police Branch, South Australian Police Department (c. 1940 - 1974)
Vaccinations and infectious diseases log - Seaforth Home (1941 - 1973)
State Ward Index Cards, State Children's Department and successors (1900 - 1992)
Files relating to children under departmental supervision, Social Welfare Department and Predecessors (1920 - 1950s)
Files relating to children under departmental supervision, Social Welfare Department and Predecessors (1950 - 1978)
Mandates committing children to the custody of the Department, Social Welfare Department and Predecessors (1880 - 1930)
Case histories of children in the care of the Department, Social Welfare Department and Predecessors (1938 - 1962)
Mortality record book of children in the care of the Department, Social Welfare Department and Predecessors (1927 - 1974)
Rough register of children available for adoption, Social Welfare Department and Predecessors (1938 - 1941)
Alphabetical lists of children, Social Welfare Department and Predecessors (1869 - 1969)
Client files, Social Welfare Department and its successors (1966 - 2001)
Adoption files, Children's Welfare and Public Relief Department and successor agencies (1915 - 2004)
Minutes - State Children's Council, later the Children's Welfare and Public Relief Board (1886 - 1965)
Case files relating to Aboriginal families and individuals, Social Welfare Department and Predecessors (1950 - 1971)
Case files relating to deceased Aborigines, Social Welfare Department and Predecessors (1950 - 1971)
Register of Admissions to the Reformatory Hulk, Fitzjames (1879 - 1893)
Register of Admissions - Industrial School, Boys Reformatory School, and Girls Reformatory School (1862 - 1882)
Case cards, arranged by subject - Women Police Branch, South Australian Police Department (1960 - 1973)
Annual Reports of the State Children's Council and the Children's Welfare and Public Relief Department (1887 - 1960)
Punishment Book, Boys Reformatory, Magill (1911 - 1934)
Conduct record, Boys Reformatory, Magill (1933 - 1945)
Personal disposition advice forms - South Australia Youth Training Centre (SAYTC) (1978 - 1993)
Minutes - Gentlemen's Committee, State Children's Council (1903 - 1911)
Photographs of Departmental institutions, Social Welfare Department and Predecessors (1945 - 1970)
Annual Reports - Department for Families and Community Services and predecessor agencies (1971 - 1997)
Register of patients - Northfield Infectious Diseases Hospital, later Northfield Wards of the Royal Adelaide Hospital (1932 - 1959)
Minutes - Aborigines' Protection Board (1940 - 1963)
Annual Reports - Protector of Aborigines and successors (1878 - 1971)
Minutes - Ladies' Committee, State Children's Council (1911 - 1916)
Correspondence files ('SCD' files) - State Children's Department (1887 - 1927)
Register of admissions to the Destitute Asylum, Adelaide (1870 - 1924)
Register of infants born in the Destitute Asylum (1880 - 1932)
Nominal List of Orphan and Deserted Children Taken Out of the Destitute Asylum (1855 - 1861)
Correspondence 'DBO' files - Destitute Board Office, Destitute Asylum (1876 - 1927)
Minutes - Destitute Board (1849 - 1927)
Register of admissions - Industrial School, Magill and Edwardstown (1886 - 1929)
Record of patients - Northfield Consumptive Home, later Morris Hospital (1934 - 1941)
Register of Admissions - Industrial School, Edwardstown (1903 - 1908)
Rough register of children in the care of the Department, State Children's Department (1920 - 1921)
Returns of children in the care of the Department, Social Welfare Department and Predecessors (1927 - 1928)
Daily returns of children in the Industrial Schools, Edwardstown Industrial School (1921 - 1939)
Lists of state wards, Social Welfare Department and Predecessors (1960)
Education - Register of Prosecutions, Education Department (1928 - 1959)
Daily statistics of children in Departmental institutions, Children's Welfare and Public Relief Department (1952 - 1963)
General Administrative Dockets (permanent), Department for Community Welfare and successors (1980s - 1990s)
Corporate files, three-tiered numeric series - Community Welfare Department and successor agencies (1918 - 2008)
Annual Reports of the Department of Social Welfare and Aboriginal Affairs (1970 - 1972)
Block plan of Destitute Asylum with notes and reference to photographs of the building (1925 - 1964)
Annual Reports of the Department for Family and Community Services and Predecessor Agencies (1971 - 1997)
Admission cards - South Australian Youth Training Centre, later Magill Training Centre (1962 - 1995)
Log books - South Australia Youth Training Centre, South Australian Youth Remand and Assessment Centre, and predecessors (1961 - 1996)
Personal disposition advice forms - Magill Training Centre (1940 - 1996)
Correspondence files ('CW & PRD' and 'SW' files) -Children's Welfare and Public Relief Department and successors (1927 - c. 1979)
Agreements and correspondence with doctors for the medical treatment of State Children and wards of the Children's Welfare and Public Relief Department (1904 - 1952)
Admission/intake cards - South Australia Youth Remand and Assessment Centre (SAYRAC) (1972 - 1994)
Log Books - South Australia Youth Remand and Assesment Centre (SAYRAC), and others (1961 - 1999)
Property and personal disposition records - South Australia Youth Remand and Assessment Centre (1947 - 1996)
Indexes to letters received - Destitute Poor Department, Destitute Persons' Department and Children's Welfare and Public Relief Department (1867 - 1955)
Aboriginal liaison files - South Australia Youth Training Centre (SAYTC) (1980 - 1999)
General Administrative Dockets (permanent), Department for Community Welfare (1974 - 1990)
Register of Admissions - Salvation Army Probationary School for Boys, Mount Barker (1900 - 1928)
Visitors' book - Estcourt House (1894 - 1955)
Register of Admissions to the Roman Catholic Boy's Reformatory, Brooklyn Park (1895 - 1908)
Correspondence files, annual single number series - Colonial Surgeon's Office and successor agencies (1850 - 1979)
Index to correspondence files - Colonial Surgeon's Office and successor agencies (1895 - 1959)
Visitors' Book - Boys' Reformatory, Magill (1933 - 1968)
Correspondence files ('AO' later 'AD' files) - Aborigines Office and successor (1866 - 1969)
Children's files - Morialta Protestant Children's Home (1943 - 1973)
Miscellaneous files including children's releases - Morialta Protestant Children's Home (1960 - 1970)
Minutes of the Board of Governors - Morialta Protestant Children's Homes (1942 - 1969)
Annual general meetings minutes and related correspondence - Morialta Protestant Children's Home (1946 - 1950)
Photographs - Morialta Protestant Children's Home (1924 - 1957)
The Open Door [Motion Picture], Morialta Protestant Children's Home (1949 - 1950)
Annual Reports - Morialta Protestant Children's Home (1925 - 1976)
Morialta Children's Home Miscellaneous Records, Social Welfare Department (1924? - 1974?)
Applications by youths for assisted passage as farm apprentices - Barwell Boys Scheme (1922 - 1924)
General administration files, multiple number, closed series - Department for Community Welfare and successor agencies (c. 1972 - c. 1998)
Applications by youths for assisted passage as boy migrants - Big Brother Scheme (1927 - 1929)
Applications for assisted passage by farm youths, agricultural workers and agricultural settlers (1921 - 1930)
Release orders under the Immigration (Guardianship of Children) Act, 1946, Social Welfare Department (1950 - 1960)
Applications for assisted passage by agricultural labourers (1911 - 1914)
Register of Admissions - Boys' Reformatory Magill (1877 - 1943)
Children forwarded to the Roman Catholic Orphanage 1867-1869 (index) [Admission Register] (1867 - 1869)

Related Archival Items

Glandore Boys' Home [Supervisor's Notes] (1966 - 1967)
Kurbingai Boys Home General Docket - Prop: WJ Sutton, 128 Esplanade, Semaphore (1958 - 1962)
Register of Admissions to the Reformatory Hulk and Boys Reformatory, Magill (1877 - 1898)
Register of Admissions to the Boys Reformatory, Magill (1898 - 1914)
Record of Admissions to Boys Reformatory (1913 - 1924)
Admission Register Boys Reformatory Magill (1926 - 1933)
Admission Register Boys Reformatory Magill (1933 - 1943)
Letter from Professor JB Cleland on the history of Campbell House (1959)
Lutheran Children's Emergency Home [Administrative File] (1966 - 1984)
Correspondence - Aboriginal Women's Home, North Adelaide (1925 - 1929)

Related Archival Collections

Records of the Department for Community Welfare and Successor Agencies (1972 - current)
Records of the Aborigines' Office and Successor Agencies (1866? - 1971?)
Records of the Hospitals Department and Predecessors (1836 - current)
Records of the Immigration, Publicity and Tourism Department and predecessor and successor agencies (1908 - 1978)
Records of the South Australia Youth Remand and Assessment Centre (c. 1961 - c. 1999)
Records of Adelaide Children's Hospital (1894? - 1978?)
Records of the Social Welfare Department and predecessors (1849 - c. 1987)
Records created by the State Children's Department (1886 - 1927)
Records created by the Destitute Board (c. 1845 - 1927)
Records of the South Australian Youth Training Centre (1940 - 1999)

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This page was written by Michael Jones, last updated 10 July 2023.

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